Extreme or obsessive addiction to cocaine; an uncontrollable craving for or compulsion to use cocaine.
From 'cocaine' plus Greek 'mania' (meaning madness or excessive enthusiasm). The '-mania' suffix was used in 19th-century medicine to describe extreme fixations and addictive behaviors.
The term 'cocainomania' reveals Victorian anxiety about cocaine—they created special medical terms suggesting it caused actual mental derangement, treating addiction as a form of madness rather than a behavioral problem!
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